Moving Java Forward Faster
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Java moves to a strict six-month feature releases cadence (next release March 2018), with every-third-year long-term support every three years (first LTS Sept 2018). OpenJDK will publish GPL builds, open-source selected commercial features (Flight Recorder, Mission Control, Z GC), and build a public test system. Language and VM work ships incrementally: Java 10 already contains local variable type inference, Project Amber introduces type-test patterns and switch expressions, and longer projects include Panama, Valhalla and Loom. Misconceptions about stability and support timelines are explicitly addressed.
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